George Bernard Shaw had a strange relationship with Nietzsche. Alternately envious and dismissive of the German philosopher, Shaw once said he wanted to be an intellectual in Nietzsche’s mold, though he also felt Nietzsche’s thinking was addled and self-absorbed. In an essay for The New Statesman, Michael Holroyd tries to make sense of Shaw’s views.

As Teju Cole demonstrated with his real-time ghazals (one, two, and three) this past week, Twitter is a medium ripe for linguistic experimentation. And far from being the exclusive domain of human beings, the social network can also produce “found poetry” at the behest of computer programs – a practice I recently wrote about for The Bygone Bureau. But who’s behind these Twitter bots? Over at The Boston Globe, they check in with Darius Kazemi, the 30-year-old programmer who’s made some of the most-loved accounts out there.

Earlier today, the Guggenheim Foundation announced this year's Fellows, and the names on their list include a few that Millions readers will recognize. On the fiction side, there's contributorLaila Lalami along with Year in Reading alumni Jess Rowand Jesse Ball, while in nonfiction and poetry, there's Amanda Petrusichalong with Adam Kirsch, Chris Kraus and Deborah Landau. The winners each receive a sizeable cash grant.

Although Gabriel García Márquezdied last week, there might be a new story on the way. According to his editor, Márquez left behind one manuscript, "We'll See Each Other in August," that he didn't intend to publish, and his family is still deciding whether to honor his wishes.